CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Marie Nadal Sharma, Founder of Them You and Me For someone who has done everything, lived a full life and enjoyed every step of the way, it’s not surprising her business is organising travel experiences for others! What’s your story? Ah! Where to start…From the South of France to Italy, from my first job in the hospitality world of New York to the first […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Mark Laudi, CEO of Hong Bao Media From anchorman to entrepreneur, Mark Laudi is always thinking of new ideas for his business. What’s your story? Like many of your readers, I am at home everywhere and nowhere. I was born in Johannesburg to German parents. I learnt to speak English when I moved to Perth at age 9. At 17, my family […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Elsie Szto-Woo, Co-founder of Butterflies and Marigolds Elsie is on the cutting edge of the fashion industry. Creating and designing clothes, as well as on and offline fashion advice. Find out what excites Elsie in the industry! What’s your story? I am a fashion entrepreneur. I am the co-founder of Butterflies and Marigolds, a ladies fashion business based in Singapore. We own […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Emi Takemura, Co-Founder of Peatix Asia Juggling motherhood and business. Emi, has created a mobile, global event platform. And she stills finds time to be amazed by her kids’ developmental skills! What’s your story? I am a co-founder and Head of Asia of Peatix.com, a mobile-first global event platform with a mission to empower organisers to build communities around unique interests […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS BuzzingBOTS in East Asia BuzzingBOTS®, a new character brand for the youth market about individual expression, social connection, multicultural diversity, and interactivity, co-founded by Kristine Tsung, a young Asian American female entrepreneur, and the first American Feng Shui master Steven Post, senior disciple of Grandmaster Lin Yun, Rimpoche, strengthens its East Asian licensing program. The owners of BuzzingBOTS […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Carrie Tan, Founder of Daughters Of Tomorrow (DOT) Connecting marginalised women can help grow GDP! Find out more… What’s your story? I am the founder of Daughters Of Tomorrow (DOT), a registered charity in Singapore whose mission is to facilitate livelihood opportunities for underprivileged women, and support them in building financially independent and resilient families. Our beneficiaries are women aged 20 to 60 […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS YY Low, Co-Owner of Hadara Aesthetics Boutique This entrepreneur’s business is more than skin deep. Hadara, Hebrew for glory, beauty and splendour, provides total wellness treatments from the inside and out. What’s your story? My background is in Health Psychology and I am one of the founders of Hadara Aesthetics Boutique. Currently I run the business and take care of all the […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Rebecca Forwood, Owner of The Fishwives Fishy business for this entrepreneur. Rebecca Forwood has grown her family Salmon import business and will continue its expansion in the region. What’s your story? I was born in Melbourne to an Australian mother and a Hong Kong Chinese father. I grew up in Hong Kong and went to boarding school in Melbourne. In 1990 […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Peiru Teo, Managing Director of La Belle Hard work and passion has led Peiru Tao’s wedding business to be the market leader. What’s your story? A valedictorian with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and a Chartered Financial Analyst, I started my corporate career as a Management Associate in Citi, followed by a private equity fund, managing projects of more than S$4 billion. […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Sheena Sheikh Freyer, Personal Trainer of Fit in HKG Smart personal training. Sheena set up a personal training organisation out of a love for sports. She keeps it small and simple and uses Hong Kong’s outdoor spaces to keep overheads down. Find out more here… What’s your story? I started Fit in Hong Kong in 2008 after 19 years in aviation, out of a […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Should TikTok Be Banned? Key Takeaway: President Biden signed a US$95 billion foreign aid bill in April 2024, allowing TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app. If the law stands, TikTok will be blocked from any US app store or web-hosting service, affecting over 170 million US users, including 62% of Americans aged 18 to 29. Critics argue […] Written by Sarah Florini April 26, 2024April 26, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Being Thoughtful In The Age Of A.I. Key Takeaway: Concerns about AI’s potential roguehood and potential harm to privacy and dignity are a significant concern. AI’s algorithms, programmed by humans, are also biased and discriminatory. However, a psychologist’s research suggests that AI is a threat to making people less disciplined and skilled in making thoughtful decisions. Making thoughtful decisions involves understanding the […] Written by Joe Arvai April 24, 2024April 24, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Humility Is The Secret To Leadership? Key Takeaway: A study has found that humble leaders can become more promotable by growing others through a “humility route”. Human capital theory suggests that employees’ value can be enhanced by investing in their knowledge, skills, and abilities. Humble leaders focus on the learning and growth of their followers, creating human capital value for themselves. […] Written by Elsa Chan April 18, 2024April 18, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Did Ancient Scientists & Philosophers Believe In Aliens? Key Takeaway: In 17th-century Europe, there was a debate about the existence of life on other planets due to the transition from a Ptolemaic view to a Copernican view. This led to the idea that if we were more like other planets and moons close to us that revolved around the Sun, they were more […] Written by Philip Almond April 17, 2024April 17, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Building Blocks Of The Universe Key Takeaway: Peter Higgs, the creator of the Higgs boson, has died at the age of 94. Higgs, a great scientist in particle physics, discovered the Higgs boson in 1964 after reading a paper by American theoretical physicist Philip Anderson. This led to the development of the Standard Model, which explained how fundamental particles and […] Written by Harald Fox April 16, 2024April 16, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Inherent Risks Of A.I. Key Takeaway: Leading scientists and technologists often make terrible predictions about the direction of innovation, leading to misalignments between a company’s economic incentives to profit from its proprietary AI model and society’s interests in how the AI model should be monetised and deployed. Focusing on the economic risks from AI is not just about preventing […] Written by Mariana Mazzucato April 15, 2024April 15, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Psychology Of A Gentleman Key Takeaway: The Gentlemen, a TV series by Guy Ritchie, reimagines the age-old trope of a “gentleman” based on Middle English and French. The term originated from Middle English, referring to the English gentry, a class below nobility but above farmers. The concept of a gentleman is associated with higher competence, warmth, and positive connotations […] Written by Jayden Greenwell-Barnden April 12, 2024April 12, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Rethinking Education Key Takeaways: The Industrial model of education that fueled the modern era and its dizzying reach did its job incredibly well. In his writing, Flynn illustrates study after study, spanning nations and decades, in which modern educational gift of abstraction — a transcendent sign of intelligence, as we saw in Raven’s Matrices — has been […] Written by Anthony Fieldman March 2, 2022October 19, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How China Is Transforming Its Economy Through Learning I highly recommend reading the McKinsey Global Institute’s new report, “Reskilling China: Transforming The World’s Largest Workforce Into Lifelong Learners”, which focuses on the country’s biggest employment challenge, re-training its workforce and the adoption of practices such as lifelong learning to address the growing digital transformation of its productive fabric. How to transform the country […] Written by Enrique Dans February 1, 2021February 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Why You’re Not Seeing Success With Influencer Marketing With the new year around the corner, now is a good time to re-evaluate your past marketing strategies and gear up for the year ahead. For some businesses, influencer marketing has simply not seemed to live up to its lofty promises of genuine engagement, credibility, and transparency. Some have claimed that it has been failing […] Written by Michael Tan January 14, 2021January 15, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A New Philosophy of Business I’m about to ask you to take a mental leap. For the next 8 minutes, suspend your notions of what a business is, and I’ll propose a new lens for you to look through. There are a lot of questions asked around what “community” means for business. “Where should community fit in my organization?” and […] Written by Empirics Asia September 5, 2018September 5, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked